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Adverb

dry-foot ‎(comparative more dry-foot, superlative most dry-foot)

1. With dry feet; without getting the feet wet.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.34:

     Where he speaketh of his passage over the River of Rheine, towards Germanie, he saith, that deeming it unworthy the honour of the Romane people, his army should passe over in shippes, he caused a bridge to be built, that so it might passe over drie-foot.

2. (obsolete) By only the scent of the feet (of hunting, tracking etc.).
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, First Folio 1623, IV.2:

     A hound that runs Counter, and yet draws drifoot well, / One that before the Iudgme[n]t carries poore soules to hel.

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